Six times during the school year, a group of teachers meet at Joslyn to study an artist and their artwork to create a lesson plan for Thursdays for Teachers (T4T). Who are these wonderful educators responsible for collaborating with Museum staff to create the curriculum? They are our Mentor…
Four years ago I met Julie Dierberger with University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Service Learning Academy (SLA) and Cathy Nelson with Blackburn Alternative High School. Little did I know that this partnership (and subsequent friendship) would lead to Joslyn Art Museum installing a life-size Truffula Tree in the Discovery…
While friends of mine who teach in traditional learning environments wind down their school year, I begin to brace myself for the summer ahead. I alter my social media settings to avoid seeing too many mid-day pool parties and I begin to set my alarm clock a little earlier….
Bad Country, good food, inspiring art, and more importantly over 225 people gathered to support the Kent Bellows Mentoring Program and made Wishbone 2015 a great success. The Kent Bellows Mentoring Program empowers high school students to explore their artistic talents through a mentoring relationship with professional artists. The…
Last September, twenty Karen students – most from camps along the Thai-Burma border and all now attending Benson High School and part of Omaha Public Schools’ ESL/Refugee and Migrant Education program – made Joslyn Art Museum their home. The students participated in a five-day quilt workshop during National…
What began as a storage room full of books and other items became a space more wonderful than any one person could have dreamed. After tedious planning, sorting, cleaning, more planning, building, bumps and hoops, this old storage room that occupied the east lower level of the Memorial Building…
Recent visitors to Joslyn have had the opportunity to participate in a collaborative art-making activity. Based on Carl Andre’s Gazetteer (in the Legacy exhibition), a text-based artwork that builds word after word into a final two-dimensional piece existing, not as poetry or prose, but as an end unto itself,…